Ryan Spickard joins us this week and tells us about his former job working in the alcohol industry of Louisville and the detrimental effects it had on his mental health. Ryan shares how his alcohol use coincided with the loss of his sister to suicide, how therapy helped him process that trauma, and how he accomplished a year of sobriety.

Featured: Original music for Two Nuts in a Pod by Neil Lucas.

Ryan Spickard joins us this week and tells us about his former job working in the alcohol industry of Louisville and the detrimental effects it had on his mental health. Ryan shares how his alcohol use coincided with the loss of his sister to suicide, how therapy helped him process that trauma, and how he accomplished a year of sobriety.

Featured: Original music for Two Nuts in a Pod by Neil Lucas.

On Truth to Power, we fill the studio with Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! This week's show features Alice Melendez and Deana Rushing from Extinction Rebellion Kentucky, and Forward Radio programmers Hart Hagan and K. A. Owens. Today's focus is on the future of food and farming in the wake of the Organic Association of Kentucky's annual conference held in Louisville March 6-7.

On Truth to Power, we fill the studio with Forward Radio programmers and friends to discuss the state of the world, the nation, the state, and the city! This week's show features Alice Melendez and Deana Rushing from Extinction Rebellion Kentucky, and Forward Radio programmers Hart Hagan and K. A. Owens. Today's focus is on the future of food and farming in the wake of the Organic Association of Kentucky's annual conference held in Louisville March 6-7.

Can you diagnose heart disease from 7000 miles away? Dr. Andrea Z. Beaton, physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center speaks about the use of telemedicine to diagnose rheumatic heart disease in children living in underserved regions of Uganda.

This is a recording of her talk entitled 'Telemedicine and Task-Shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Applications in Rheumatic Heart Disease' given at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY on Feb. 11, 2020. The rest of this talk will be broadcast on our March 16th episode.

Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

Can you diagnose heart disease from 7000 miles away? Dr. Andrea Z. Beaton, physician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center speaks about the use of telemedicine to diagnose rheumatic heart disease in children living in underserved regions of Uganda.

This is a recording of her talk entitled 'Telemedicine and Task-Shifting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Applications in Rheumatic Heart Disease' given at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY on Feb. 11, 2020. The rest of this talk will be broadcast on our March 16th episode.

Bench Talk is a weekly program that airs on WFMP Louisville FORward Radio 106.5 FM (forwardradio.org) every Monday at 7:30 pm, Tuesday at 11:30 am, and Wednesday at 7:30 am.

Visit our Facebook page for links to the articles discussed in this episode: https://www.facebook.com/pg/BenchTalkRadio/posts/?ref=page_internal

On this week’s edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, gets his hands dirty with two great guests from Forward Radio’s community partner, the Urban Agriculture Coalition. In the studio this week to get you excited about planning and starting your garden this year are Bethany Pratt, Agent for Horticulture Education with Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, and Lilias Pettit-Scott, Urban Agriculture Conservationist with the Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District. Learn more about the Urban Ag Coalition at http://foodinneighborhoods.org/grow

Check out Jefferson County Cooperative Extension at http://jefferson.ca.uky.edu or https://www.facebook.com/JeffersonCoExtension/

And find all the resources available from the Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District at http://jeffcd.org

They will all be on hand at the Main Public Library’s How-To Fest on Saturday, May 9th from 10am-3pm. Find more info about that as the date nears at http://lfpl.org

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is used by permission from the fantastic Louisville band, Appalatin. Explore their inspiring music at http://www.appalatin.com

On this week’s edition of Sustainability Now!, your host, Justin Mog, gets his hands dirty with two great guests from Forward Radio’s community partner, the Urban Agriculture Coalition. In the studio this week to get you excited about planning and starting your garden this year are Bethany Pratt, Agent for Horticulture Education with Jefferson County Cooperative Extension, and Lilias Pettit-Scott, Urban Agriculture Conservationist with the Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District. Learn more about the Urban Ag Coalition at http://foodinneighborhoods.org/grow

Check out Jefferson County Cooperative Extension at http://jefferson.ca.uky.edu or https://www.facebook.com/JeffersonCoExtension/

And find all the resources available from the Jefferson County Soil & Water Conservation District at http://jeffcd.org

They will all be on hand at the Main Public Library’s How-To Fest on Saturday, May 9th from 10am-3pm. Find more info about that as the date nears at http://lfpl.org

As always, our feature is followed by your community action calendar for the week, so get your calendars out and get ready to take action for sustainability NOW!

Sustainability Now! airs on FORward Radio, 106.5fm, WFMP-LP Louisville, every Monday at 6pm and repeats Tuesdays at 12am and 10am. Find us at http://forwardradio.org

The music in this podcast is used by permission from the fantastic Louisville band, Appalatin. Explore their inspiring music at http://www.appalatin.com

Ruth and her guests, Victoria Strange and Melissa Morgenson, discuss income inequality in America and how several of the Democratic Presidential candidates characterize it.

Ruth and her guests, Victoria Strange and Melissa Morgenson, discuss income inequality in America and how several of the Democratic Presidential candidates characterize it.